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How on earth are you supposed to mother your children from behind bars?

February 8, 2019 by

Imagine not being able to hug and kiss your child. To care for them when they are sick. To celebrate their successes and comfort them when they fail. What if you missed their first day of school? Their high school graduation? Their wedding? For incarcerated mothers, missing crucial life transitions but also everyday moments is […]

Why on earth would Jesus throw a child off a roof?

February 1, 2019 by

Parents might breathe easier knowing that even Jesus terrorized his parents as a child. The New Testament only relates one such story:  Jesus gets lost in Jerusalem and Mary and Joseph take several days backtracking before finding him at the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Only the gospels of Luke and Matthew even have birth narratives, and […]

5 Times Bookshelves Were(n’t) on the Move

January 25, 2019 by

This article features Dr. Lydia Pyne, Historian and Author of “Bookshelf.” “Bookshelves exist as a series of relationships…what moves on a bookshelf and what is fixed—the shelf itself or what is on it.” Here are some examples of bookshelves that were(n’t) on the move! Chained bookshelves In the Middle Ages, books were expensive. Like REALLY expensive. […]

Why on earth would a Nazi defendant go to a play based on his own trial?

January 18, 2019 by

This article features the work of Dr. Minou Arjomand, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. American audiences love a good trial. 57% of Americans watched the jury deliver their verdict in O.J. Simpson’s case in 1995. That’s 150 million viewers. But O.J. Simpson’s case wasn’t the only one attracting fans. […]

What on earth do these words have in common?

December 4, 2018 by

This article features the work of Dr. Kate Blackburn, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. What do women want from romance? Audiences have long been captivated by this question. Movies and books have tried to provide answers. Seriously, is the female mind such a mystery? There’s one book […]

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